Statistics Act. Under the Act, signed into law
in April, 1990, the Department of Justice is
required to collect data on crimes which
"manifest prejudice based on race, religion,
sexual orientation, or ethnicity." The Act also
requires the Attorney General to publish an
annual summary of the findings.
In the year since the data collection mandate
was given to the FBI and its Uniform Crime
Reporting Section, considerable progress has
been made toward effective national
implementation of the Act. Working closely
with UCR professionals, ADL provided input
and expertise. The FBI developed implement-
ing guidelines and a training manual on the
Act, documents which have now been
distributed to over 16,000 law enforcement
agencies around the country.
In early April, ADL represented other human
relations organizations which had helped to
shape the Bureau's HCSA outreach and
education efforts at a press conference
announcing the FBI's implementation
program. In the Fall, the Bureau began a
series of training seminars for state and local
law enforcement officials. The FBI has
trained over 1000 representative law
enforcement agencies in almost all of the 315
cities and counties in the U.S. with a
population of more than 100,000. ADL
resources on hate groups and hate crimes are
referred to in the FBI training materials and
the League's 17-minute police training
video—produced in cooperation with the
New Jersey Department of Law and Public
Safety—has been highlighted at many of the
FBI seminars and at other law enforcement
conferences.
Training sessions have featured presentations
on the utility of the data from law enforce-
ment officers from areas where hate crime
data already are being collected, discussions
on the nature of prejudice and the special
impact of bias-motivated criminal activity, as
well as appearances by human relations
groups, including ADL, to describe their
expertise in analyzing and responding to hate
crime.
In addition to the FBI conferences, in the past
year ADL professionals have participated in
panel discussion on hate crimes at a number
of meetings of national law enforcement
groups.
ADL Hate-Crime
Police Training Video
The accuracy and uniformity of bias-crime
data collected will only be as good as the
"reporters." Thus, effective training for police
officials on how to identify, report, and
respond to hate crimes will be critical to
ensure the success of the important new
initiative represented by HCSA. To help
meet this need, ADL has produced a new law
enforcement training film on hate crimes, in
association with the New Jersey Department
of Law and Public Safety. This seventeen-
minute video is designed to be shown at
police training academies and to individual
law enforcement agencies across the country.
The film portrays actual incidents of criminal
activity motivated by prejudice. It dramati-
cally illustrates the impact of this type of
crime on the victim and the victim's commu-
nity. Most importantly, the film concisely
outlines appropriate law enforcement
response—by showing how to identify hate
crimes and how to deal with the victim's
trauma, and by underlining the importance of
treating the criminal action seriously. The
film has been endorsed by the International
Association of Chiefs of Police, the National
Organization of Black Law Enforcement
Executives, the Fraternal Order of Police, and
the Police Foundation. Former Attorney
General Richard Thornburgh wrote the
foreword for the twenty-four page discussion
manual for trainers that accompanies the film.
Security Handbook
In 1991 ADL published a convenient pocket
size security pamphlet which was based on its
1986 practical counteraction tool: Security For
Community Institutions. Both the pamphlet
and the handbook (first issued in 1984)
continue to be widely distributed across the
United States. They aim at preventing—and
coping with—destructive violence against
persons and property, particularly that
motivated by religious or racial prejudice.
Prepared in cooperation with the Crime
Prevention Section of the New York City
Police Department, the handbook and the new
pamphlet are based on ADL's experience in
monitoring and countering anti-Jewish
vandalism and other crimes directed at Jews
and Jewish owned property. They reflect the
knowledge gained by the League in working
closely with law enforcement agencies and in
co-sponsoring security conferences and
workshops. The ADL security handbook has
received endorsements from local and federal
law enforcement officials.
Both the handbook and the security pamphlet
detail security measures and procedures for
community institutions; suggest proper
reaction when incidents occur; provide
information on security programs carried out
by the New York City Police Department's
Crime Prevention Section and its Bias Incident
Investigating Unit. The handbook provides
additional material such as a model form for
reporting incidents to local police departments,
as well as the text of model state statute
developed by ADL as a tool to assist law
enforcement agencies in dealing with the
problem of vandalism against religious and
ethnic institutions. Both the pamphlet and the
security handbook have been shared with
churches, ethnic organizations and other
community groups which are also vulnerable
to bias crimes.
wanted information and guidance in dealing
with growing racial, religious and ethnic
tensions they were experiencing, ADL
created the new programs to respond to those
needs.
"A Campus of Difference" has been offered
at over 45 campuses across the country
including Columbia, NYU Law School, Mt.
St. Vincent's College, the University of
Texas, Sarah Lawrence College, Syracuse
University, Yale University, Morrisville
College, SUNY Oneonta, and Occidental
College. Also, a video called "Facing
Difference: Living Together On Campus,"
which features college students talking about
the problems they have faced in a highly
diverse college environment, is now being
disseminated widely.
AT&T, Security Pacific Corporation, the
New York City Commission on Human
Rights, Security Pacific Banks, NA, South-
east Banks, and Bellcore are among those
businesses and agencies which have availed
themselves of the new model programming of
"A Workplace of Difference." Full-day
workshops allow participants in both
programs to interact and openly discuss issues
of diversity, prejudice and discrimination.
Meeting the diversity awareness needs of our
nation's law enforcement agencies presented
a new training challenge to ADL, leading to
the creation of a special training program
specifically aimed at law enforcement
professionals. The program has been offered
at the National FBI Academy, the Houston
Police Department, the Little Rock Police
Department, the Albany Police Department,
and other law enforcement agencies.
During 1991 ADL coordinated all of its
educational efforts to combat prejudice under
one umbrella forming the A WORLD OF
DIFFERENCE Institute. In addition to ADL's
ongoing programs a number of new initiatives
will be taken. Through intensive training
programs the Institute will assist educators in
their efforts to combat prejudice and to value
diversity.
Education: In the Schools
Education: The Campus
and the Workplace
In 1989 ADL announced the creation of the
Mildred and Samuel Levine Institute for
College Campus Affairs Programming to
combat bias incidents and expressions of all
forms of prejudice on campuses. The
Institute's first event that November was a
national conference on campus prejudice held
at the University of Pennsylvania. And the
Institute published "Combating Bigotry on
Campus: The Problem and Strategies for
Counteraction," a report distributed during the
conference. The Institute followed up by also
publishing the conference's proceedings.
During 1991 the Mildred and Samuel Levine
Institute sponsored a National Teleconference
for Jewish students on the Persian Gulf War in
February, and an October 1991 conference in
Los Angeles called Dealing with Diversity on
Campus: Tools for Jewish Students.
During 1990, ADL expanded its efforts against
prejudice by adding two new programs: "A
Campus of Difference" and "A Workplace of
Difference." Both projects are modeled after
ADL's seven-year-old educational and media
program, "A World of Difference," which
trains educators in K-12 in 25 regions across
America to combat prejudice by increasing
students' awareness of cultural and ethnic
diversity and helping them learn to value it.
When corporate and academic communities
The nation's schools must be included in any
program designed to address the problem of
bigotry. Confronting and eliminating
prejudice should be an educational priority at
all levels of education—school systems,
individual schools, administrators, teachers,
and professional education organizations.
ADL disseminates an extensive catalogue of
print and audiovisual materials for schools.
Included are books, curricula, and videos on
prejudice reduction, multicultural education,
the Holocaust, and ways of strengthening our
democratic society. This catalogue of
materials is utilized by more than 100,000
teachers, administrators, and curriculum
developers.
Some examples: On the elementary level—a
handbook "Teacher They Called Me A—!"
has 69 classroom activities on such topics as
Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Differences in
Life Styles, Discrimination Against the
Disabled, and the Influence of Gender on
How Children Are Treated.
On the secondary level of the manual, "Being
Fair and Being Free," teaches students the
evils of prejudice in their own lives, in other
countries, and in other times.
A large variety of excellent videos such as
"Behind the Mask," "Names Can Really Hurt
Us," and "Shadows Between Friends" show
elementary and/or high school students facing
prejudiced behaviors and learning about the
evils of prejudice.
An updated series of 12 "Sports Posters"
features famous athletes declaring: "If You
Really Believe in America, Prejudice is Foul
Play."
ADL, the National Urban League, and the
League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC) have formed a coalition to work
with schools to help them develop programs
that teach the importance of intergroup
respect and understanding within our
democratic, pluralistic society.
In cooperation with the National PTA, ADL
has prepared and the National PTA has
distributed a pamphlet entitled "What To
Teach Your Child About Prejudice and
Discrimination." In clear and direct language
the pamphlet assists parents and teachers in
telling youngsters how to treat others with
respect and how to deal with prejudice
directed against themselves.
ADL, together with the New York State
Department of Education, has developed a
pamphlet for high school students, "Hate Can
Hurt, Let's Stop Prejudice." The pamphlet
has been widely utilized to initiate discus-
sions among youngsters on how to deal with
prejudiced behaviors.
To meet the threat of anti-Semitism, the ADL
has produced two educational videos with
discussion guides, plus three pamphlets under
the overall title "Confronting Anti-Semitism."
The two videos, "A How-To for Jewish
Youth" and "A Family Awareness Project"
simulate various scenarios such as anti-
Jewish "jokes" and comments, and school
policies that conflict with religious obser-
vances.
The pamphlets "Guidelines for Jewish
Parents" and "Guidelines for the Jewish
Community" help parents to aid young
victims of hate, and Jewish communities in
confronting modern anti-Semitism. The third
pamphlet in the series offers "Guidelines for
the Christian Community" on facing anti-
Semitism.
This multimedia program is designed for
schools, religious organizations, and
community groups.
Thanks to Peter Nagourney, Jo Lynn Watts
and Diane Lutz for their help in editing and
typesetting this condensed version of a formal
ADL report.
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